Bookmark Jessica Alba in Sexy Beach Wear (blogspot.com)
Submission + - Trans-Atlantic Robots
An anonymous reader writes: In the summer of 2008, teams from a host of countries will compete in The Microtransat Challenge with the hope of gaining the honor of having built the first autonomous sailboat to cross the Atlantic. The results of Microtransat 2007, a smaller scale preliminary race, were recently announced. The winner was the team from Austria; team RoBoat, for having completed 24 hours of autonomous sailing. I am strongly considering joining this competition before the year is out, and would appreciate any insight from the Slashdot community. The boats can be up to 4 meters in length, and therefore capable of carrying a full-sized onboard computer (operating system of your choice). Time is limited however, so I would like to avoid as many hardware issues as possible and get straight to the difficult problem of writing the AI. So how would you design a seamless interface between sensors and actuators to the high-level code?
Comment Re:Whiners. (Score 1) 1143
Try to support a family on $7/hr. That works out to $14,000/yr if you work the full 40hrs/week. Let's say that your take-home works out to $11,000/yr
Now for a little bit of real-world math:
Small Grungy Apartment: $6000/yr
Public Transit Pass: $1100/yr
That leaves you with a mere $3,900 for food, clothing, utilities etc...
As a father of two girls (4 1/2 months and 2 1/2 years) I can tell you that $325/month won't go very far.
Now for a little bit of real-world math:
Small Grungy Apartment: $6000/yr
Public Transit Pass: $1100/yr
That leaves you with a mere $3,900 for food, clothing, utilities etc...
As a father of two girls (4 1/2 months and 2 1/2 years) I can tell you that $325/month won't go very far.
Slashdot Top Deals
It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming. -- J. Sammet
